The Sale of Rose Tarlow

The legendary Los Angeles designer Rose Tarlow has sold her namesake company Rose Tarlow/Melrose House to Design Investors, a couple of ex-owners of Waterworks who are now buying design companies, “diamonds in the rough.” Now, I just wonder what Rose thinks about her company being referred to as a diamond in the rough, more like a perfect emerald cut in her estimation. This is a designer that has spawned many of the finest reproduction companies like Dessin Fournir and Gregorius Pineo, and who rightly or wrongly believes she invented design. I do hope to see new models being introduced at the George Cameron Nash showroom, so that the Rose Tarlow/Melrose House will continue to be the very pinnacle of reproduction furniture.